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Yeah it's all luck. I personally have very good luck with SA drops. I can usually get a drop off the wyvern in about 5 rounds. But then I can't get another for awhile. The other day I did the rat renowned and got 2 drops out of the three spawns. Mystics garb and Axe of abandon. It's all timing... To me, the devourer is MUCH easier, but it also seems to me the drop rate is lower.

It's five months i'm trying to get a drop from a SA mini-champs. I tried with big luck, medium luck, no luck, farming... zero. And i'm lucky because i have a lot of free time to play. There are tons of posts about better ways to deal with "drops" than pure rng, especially the broken one of UO. So we get animated pumpkins.

I've killed them all dozens of times... Usually from Medusa I get something stupid... like the Stone Dragons Tooth....

Same with doing Slasher or Styngian...

After 100's of dead Navrey spiders I finally got a Tangle.... and 2 or 3 Night Eyes.

I've NEVER gotten one single drop from killing any of the mini-champs no matter how many times I've done them.

And for YEARS I went on Doom run after Doom run only to have one of my guildmates CONSTANTLY get a drop EVERY time we went.... one time he actually got 2 Orny's in a row on 2 consecutive Dark Fathers.... was enough to make me want to vomit. But I never got a single one..... then finally I got my first drop after years of going and what did I get??????

The LUNA FREAKING Lance.... piece of complete GARBAGE...

I was less than amused. I go now and from time to time I do actually get a drop from Doom.... but those are few and far between.

Stratics Veteran

i get one about every 3 or 4 slashers, but not every one.
Ive had runs of bad luck on boss drops but never as bad as your luck it seems.

first week the renowned arties dropped i got a set of tinker legs, I thought "wow that was easy ill sell them for quick cash and farm another set to keep"
farmed lots of wyverns while i was doin my stygy marathons and didnt get another drop until about a month ago, tho that drop was another tinker legs.

Ive gone a week of steady play and soloing and gotten nothing at all, and then ill get 2 crimmys and a draconis wrath within 3 days. RNG is a fickle freak

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